Harbin () is a 2024 South Korean biographical period drama film directed by Woo Min-ho. The film stars Hyun Bin as Ahn Jung-geun, a Korean independence activist who assassinated Ità  Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of Japan, in 1909. The cast also includes Park Jeong-min, Jo Woo-jin, Jeon Yeo-been, Park Hoon, Yoo Jae-myung, Lily Franky, and Lee Dong-wook.
The film had its world premiere in the Gala program of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2024. It was released theatrically on December 24, 2024.
In 1909, Ahn Jung-geun, a resistance fighter opposing Korea's subjugation by Japan, struggles across the frozen Tumen River. Meanwhile, his fellow resistance fighters question his whereabouts and loyalty. Ahn returns but has his leadership challenged because most of the fighters under him had died in a recent successful attack against the Japanese. Ahn had refused to commit war crimes by executing prisoners of war, including officer Tatsuo Mori, and freed them. Mori tracked down Ahn's group and slaughtered them with cannon.
Ahn decides that he will redeem himself by assassinating Ità  Hirobumi, the Prime Minister of Japan and former Resident General of Korea. Ità  is currently travelling by train from China to Russian-controlled Harbin to hold meetings with Vladimir Kokovtsov, the Russian Finance Minister, in which the future of Korea will be discussed.
Ahn leads a team that includes Woo Deok-sun and Kim Sang-hyun by train to Vladivostok. The conductor alerts Japanese soldiers after overhearing them speaking Korean in a first-class carriage. In the ensuing brawl, Kim is knocked out the window and Ahn escapes. Ahn reaches the safehouse in Vladivostok, where the team regroups along with reinforcements from Korea who usurp Ahn's leadership, with Woo being the last to arrive. Meanwhile, Ità  is briefed about the assassination plot but refuses to give in and cancel the public reception at Harbin railway station.
The team reaches out to Ms. Gong, a former associate of theirs in the independence struggle who is now an arms smuggler, for explosives to blow up Ità Â's train carriage. Unable to procure them in Vladivostok quickly enough, Gong instead gets them from her brother-in-law and former Korean independence fighter-turned bandit in Jilin.
With this delay, it is now too late to assassinate Ità  in Changchun. As the team sets out for China, they are ambushed outside their safe house by Russian and Japanese troops led by Mori and the explosives are destroyed. The team suspects they have been infiltrated by a mole. On the train to Harbin, they carry out a sting operation using false information that Ahn's team will strike at a railway station where Ità  is scheduled to switch trains before reaching Harbin. The sting reveals that Kim is the traitor.
Woo and Kim arrive at the change station, where Japanese troops led by Mori lie in wait. Woo confronts Kim about his betrayal, who breaks down before Woo can shoot him. A flashback shows that Kim was captured and tortured by Mori using gas. Mori breaks into the room and brutally interrogates the two about Ahn, before realizing that he must be in Harbin.
At Harbin railway station, Ahn is briefed about the situation by Gong. After the meeting is over, the dignitaries leave the train carriage and Ahn stalks them through the crowd as they cross the platform. Mori tries to catch Ahn but is knocked down by Gong, allowing Ahn to shoot Ità  repeatedly while shouting "Long live Korea!" in Russian before being detained.
News of Ità Â's assassination spreads and Ahn is hanged in March 1910. Later, Mori meets with Kim to get him to infiltrate Kim Ku's independence movement, but Kim stabs him to death and rejoins Gong and a recently released Woo. A flashback reveals that Ahn had ordered Woo to give Kim a second chance. The film returns to Ahn on the frozen Tumen River thinking about the need to keep fighting for Korean independence no matter how bleak the outlook.
Hive Media Corp announced Hyun Bin had been cast in Harbin in November 2021. Filming took place in early 2023 in Latvia.
Harbin premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, as part of the Gala section, on September 8, 2024.
The film was released on December 24, 2024 and opened in first place at the South Korean box office with 381,251 admissions. The film topped the South Korean box office for twenty eight days following its release. On December 25, the film surpassed 1 million audience on the second day of its release, on December 28, it crossed 2 million viewers on the fifth day of its release, and on January 1, the film hit 3 million admissions on the ninth day of its release.
As of March 15, 2025, the film has grossed US$32,928,686 from 4,911,782 admissions.
International political scientist and Conservative Party of Japan politician, YÃ Âichi Shimada and other conservatives in Japan criticized this movie, alongside Biochemical Revelations 731 (released in China) as "revisionist propaganda designed to encourage animosity towards Japan".